Finding your place in the World with What3words
I have in the last few days started using https://what3words.com/ . I think this is a great idea, mapping the World to a minute level of detail so that a combination of 3 words can become a unique identifier for every 3m x 3m square in our planet. If you read their executive summary or high level statement, they mention the often found difficulty in properly describing addresses in many cities in the World, for example Tokyo. This is true, and in fact I have that problem even with my own home address, as people often mix up or get confused my address and a similar one up the road. However, I think there are some other applications where this idea is even more powerful, and where I would describe it as massively useful. The first one is breakdown recovery services. If you have ever broken down with your car, you probably were asked for your location, and, if on a road (hopefully a main road, even worse if it was a back road) you were expected to be pretty precise, something lik